BigChef

I will agree that losing zeds can be fairly easy, perhaps too easy, however when running Elektro and I take a right around a building, a left through a break in a wall, then a dash through a building, I should be able to shake an infected. Hell, it would work on most people if they lost LOS and guessed wrong...just sayin

Um...Fraggle...didn't you quit this thread? Really...for the last time? Didn't mean it...really mean it? ;) Nutshell...I like TP, but it's broken, please fix. FP is growing on me, but it's broken, please fix...thank you

I'm with you Fraggle! Navigating with stars would be very cool indeed, I would need to familiarize myself with the Cherarus night sky, however i believe Ursis Minor (North Star) should be veiwable from there and that's all I need for starters.

Too bad, all full moons while not as bad as 24/7 daylight, is still...ugh, too much typing today, gonna go play. Thanks for the reply.

New laptop, downloaded arma combined ops (arma II, op arrow head & beta) from steam, d/l commander from dayzcommander.com and from a private server I get a battle eye kick "script restrition #82" tried searching but the only references I can find reference server issues or Epoch???

Reloaded DayZ from commander...it's all good

Hayao Miyazaki rocks! I spotted your no face right off...cheers

Now the difficulty here when posting on the forums is that our communication cannot take on the intended inflection, body language and the myriad of minute idiosyncrasies that allow us to make our intention known other than through vocabulary, so I wish to make it perfectly clear that I respect the POV of team 1st person, I do, I get it. I also agree that the 3rd person view needs tweaking, I enjoy 3rd person and use it about a 3rd (of course) of the time I’m in the game, and I do agree that the ability to look around corners is, well, quite frankly bullshit. But with that said in FP there is no ability to extend your head above the grass when prone, lift yourself up to peer over a wall and getting stuck in a doorway or bush pretty much launches the player right out of “immersion” pretty damn quick! I also feel there’s a restricted field of view in FP…if there’s a way to correct this by all means let me know. Since this thread first began I’ve been trying to play in first as long as possible to well, walk in the other person’s shoes and as of this posting I still enjoy a blend of both view points and believe both perspective need work in order to make this game as address the above mentioned doorways, and bushes as well as some of it’s obvious flaws while in control of vehicles as well as when the player decides to run a marathon from coast to NWAF. Third person I believe is solved by lowering the camera to say 10 to 12 inches behind and just above the character’s head curing some of the FP limitations while removing the X-ray or sight bending abilities that are currently a PITA for PvP play. Just my opinion, not judging your opinions, after all they are just that, yours. You may proceed to pick my post apart…I’m fine with that as well. Oh, one more thing..Dsi1, to be clear, I do not believe I have ever used the “vanity” defense as a reason for keeping 3rd person, yet you’ve grouped me with that crowd. Pease note that I am fine with how I look and while vain in this world I do not care in DayZ Peace

Perhaps, but it was good for a chortle.

I tried playing last night in just 1st person...I had the head bob turned off, guess I missed or didn't know how to turn off "movement Blur" one of the things I really dislike about FP, the blur is anoying as hell, so is getting stuck in doorways and navigating in the small industrial sheds is a bitch and I got stuck in bushes A LOT. I mean REALLY tried for better than an hour to play in FP only and it was difficult....yes, it's supposed to be difficult, but it was difficult to enjoy. The thing I missed the most was the point of reference, in 3rd person I have a greater awareness of where I am, like now, sitting behind my desk. In FP I could see my hands and my key board but the peripheral is lost. Whipping your head around to get a different view via the number pad and then refocusing straight ahead messes me up. I do agree that the camera angle being a meter and a half above the head sucks and should be lowered...and I could care less how the guy looks, that has never been part of my argument. I will play again tonight in FP..how to turn off the movement blur???

If I spawn in Kamenka, I head due North hitting deer stands and barns until I get to Zel then on to NWAF. If Zel is crowded, I'll skirt it and go to the air field for a weapon or two then return.

The thing with death messages is they give too much away. Say you fire on someone that you feel very sure is alone and the death massage says "BigChef was killed by Jvalor" you can run right down and start looting the body because the message says I'm dead. Now without that message you've fired, I went down but if your view is obstructed you had better proceed with caution because you're unsure if the player is dead or wounded or in the instance your weapon has high recoil you may not be sure if you even hit me and could walk right into a bullet your self. Death messages...not so much

Guess I can stop down loading origins...thanks for the heads up, I won't waste my time.

1st: it was the fourth or fifth time I'd played and was noobilly walking down the road when this dude comes driving up in a pickup truck and starts doing circles around me, laughing all the while on side chat. Because of trees, fences and me trying to get away from him he had to stop and back up from time to time to complete his circle. This went on for a while until I decide to remove his front tire and run off into the woods, log out and come back hours alter to steal his truck. 2nd: Once again I hadn't been playing long and so after looting the tents near Balota I just started off across the open toward the airfield. I was about 200m from the control tower when I spotted two ghillie suits with 50s atop the control tower...I'm in the open! WIDE OPEN! They spot me, or at least one did and they turned, I had nothing to lose so I started running toward them, straight toward them. They either sucked or the fact that I was closing ground made it difficult to find me in the crosshairs of a weapon that was most likely zeroed at 300m or more, either way they emptied their mags without hitting me before I got to the wall of the tower and out of their sight...must have drove them nuts because they came down after me, and I wish I could say I killed them both with my makarov but that ain;t true, I hit one and the other got me after quite a bit of cat and mouse around the control tower all the while ducking zeds that were attracted by the sound of 50's. It was a good way to die. Nice post, these stories are enjoyable, I hope more share their's

Just to add that there are some good private hives.

I like the locked height idea, 3rd person does bug me when I look down from about nine feet. I think the view say when the player is in a deer stand is great and would prefer it over the current camera view.

Anti-biotics! :/

That seems to be about right. I play alone a lot and so quite often I am a little low on blood and without using any food I will die within an hour.

In Electro the corner pub is right across from the WalmartZ and just North of the big office building which is just down from the hospital making it a great route, thus fulfilling all my looting addictions in one neighborhood. A deadly neighborhood, but great looting!

The two story pub as well as the red house with the arched doorway are both good sources for matches as well.

My daughter and i play the game together from time to time, same age as you and from what I've read you both share a similar maturity level...have fun

(or you're really bad and beyond help) stop trying to use your failures as a gamer as an excuse. It doesn't work. wanting a game breaking feature like third person for something so petty and shallow is sad. A really sad excuse of an excuse. Telling someone that their style of play, that differs from yours is "shallow and sad" is shallow and sad...not constructive

your best friend may just be your hatchet.

The crazy Ivans the zeds do aren't much easier to deal with in 3rd person! Opinions were asked for and here's mine in a nutshell...first person as it is doesn't work smoothly enough in all aspects of gameplay (in fact just plain sucks in a few) to completely ditch 3rd person. Leave it to the servers...why interfere with how others play the game? There are plenty of "Holy fuck I won the lottery" load outs with 550 vehicle servers, you don't play them, don't play the 3rd person enabled servers either.

It is for the players who don't even get what DayZ is all about, it is about the immersion! I thought it was about having fun???